[PATCH] regtool: Ignore /proc/registry{,32,64}/ prefix, with forward or backslashes, allowing path completion

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Brian,


The patch idea is nice.  Two nits, though.

Please shorten the commit msg summary line and add a bit of descriptive
text instead.


On Nov 10 09:14, Brian Inglis wrote:
> ---
>  winsup/utils/regtool.cc | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/winsup/utils/regtool.cc b/winsup/utils/regtool.cc
> index a44d90768..ddb1304cd 100644
> --- a/winsup/utils/regtool.cc
> +++ b/winsup/utils/regtool.cc
> @@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ usage (FILE *where = stderr)
>        "  users    HKU   HKEY_USERS\n"
>        "\n"
>        "If the keyname starts with a forward slash ('/'), the forward slash is used\n"
> -      "as separator and the backslash can be used as escape character.\n");
> +      "as separator and the backslash can be used as escape character.\n"
> +      "If the keyname starts with /proc/registry{,32,64}/, using forward or backward\n"
> +      "slashes, allowing path completion, that part of the prefix is ignored.\n");

Is that really essential user information?

I assume this behaviour is something you just expected to work but then
didn't.  With your patch it now works as you expected.  So it's kind of
a bugfix, rather than a change of behaviour the user needs to learn about.

The above text is, IMHO, more confusing than helpful to a user just
asking for regtool --help.  I'd just drop it.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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